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'From White Plains' Tom Hanks' 1994 Oscar acceptance speech for "Philadelphia" included a shoutout to his high school drama teacher and a fellow drama classmate — as Hanks called them, "two of the finest gay Americans." That moment in turn inspired the 1997 comedy "In & Out," in which a former student accidentally "outs" his small-town teacher at the Academy Awards. But what if someone turned the awards podium into an actual bully pulpit by calling out an old nemesis? That is the jumping-off point for Michael Perlman's "From White Plains," in its local premiere in an earnest but often-taut production with...

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